Connecticut western news., 1887-06-08
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The Paris press comments indicate that in
 the Left groups there arc 15O Deputies solid
 against NJ. Rouvier, and, therefore, that he will
 be unable to incr, ase his Republican majority
 of eleven, and any measure that would alierate
 the support of the Right would make the
 Cabinets existence precarious.
 Spain and her African colonies are to be
 connected by telegraph cables. -Phylloxera has appeared at Funfkirchen,
 in the midst of the Baranda vineyards, the
 finest in Hungary.
 The protected journey of the Emperor William to Gastein where he was expected to meet the Emperor of Austria, has been aban-
 doned on account of the kaisers physical con , dition, and the meeting suspended indefinitely.
 The Spanish Government has decided to largely increase the import duties on goods lm- ported from nations which, like the United
 States, have no commercial treaty with Spain This is in direct violation of the promises made by the Government to the Cuban home
 rulers who recently demanded low tariff and other economic reforms the price of their abstention from agitating the question of an- nexing the Spanish West Indies to the United States, and is generally denounced as a gratui-
 tous piece of bad faith.
 Prof. Wagner, the African traveller, com
 mitted suicide at Munich. President Grevy has made Q personal do-
 nation of 10000 francs to the Opera Comique sufferers.
 The statue of Haydn was unveiled at Ni- enna in the presence of an immense crowd of spectators. The Emperor pulled the silken
 cords which uncovered the statue, and in a
 work to the city in the name of it's patrons and promoters.
 The State Department is in correspondence with the British Government relative to send ing paupers to this country. Prince Bismarck is indisposed, and will not attend the Baltic Canal ceremonies at kiel. He will soon go to Freidrichsruhe. MT. Gladstone will receive many demon strations of honor while en route to Swansea. He is not expected to make any speeches, as he desires to preserve his voice for the fight in
 Parliament.
 l A landslip has occurred on Spitzen Moun-
 tain, near Spiringen, Switzerland, covering an
 area of two square milometres. Many houses
 were destroyed. Ten persous were killed, many more seriously wounded, and many
 herds of cattle were de,troyed. The debris
 damned the Schaehen torrent, forming an ex- tensive lake, and if the dam gives away a ser ious catastrophe is inevitable. The German steamer Oder was wrecked on Socotra Island, in the Indian Ocean, on
 May Soth. The passengers and most of the crew were saved. She arrived at Shanghai
 April a6, from Bremen, and was probably on
 her way back when wrecked. The Oder be-
 longed to the Norddeutscher Lloyd. She was
 built in Greenock in 1874; was of S.15S tons
 burden, and her horse power was 600.
 -Hmperor Francis Joseph and Crown Prince
 Rudolph will unveil the monument of Hayden
 the composer. The Archbishop of Vienna will
 ohiclate at the ceremony, which will be accom-
 panied with . religious and musical service.
 The Austrian War Department has reject
 cd the proposal to form a balloon corps, on the
 ground of its excessive cost.
 A petition from Nantes, signed before the
 Mayor by $500 electors, prays President
 Grevy to restore Gen. Boulanger to the post
 of War Minister.
 The Ameer of Afghanistan is lying very ill
 at Cabul, and the situation of affairs near Cam
 dahar is critical. The Indian Government in
 tends to send full army corps at once to the
 northern frontier.
 fire broke out in the new Burg Theatre, in
 the Ring Strasse now in course of construc-
 tion at Vienna. The flames were extinguished
 immediately, though naturally the occurrence caused great sensation. A wooden cross has been erected at Bodyke, where the work of eviction had to be stopped on account of the Sheriff being seized with fit, upon which are inscribed these words:
 Praise the Lord! here the tyrant's art was
 paralyzed."
 The new French Cabinet has been official
 ly announced, but there is no confidence that it will last.
 Father Keller, released from prison, was
 presented with an address at Youghal by the
 local branch of the National League. In his
 reply he said that he would rather be in a cell in kilmainham Jail, great as was his horror of imprisonment, than witness the recent atro- cious eyictions on the Ponsonby estate. A widespread earthquake occurred in Mexico, causing much damage, but no loss of life so far as known.
 Prof. Charlois. of Nice, has discovered a new asteroid of the thirteenth magnitude. A new Quebec loan of S2, ,50O, 900 will be f1oated in France, it being considered that more favorable terms can be obtained there than in England.
 The rame of the steamer, with 75O per sons on board, which has been missing since the recent cyclone in India, is Sir John Law | renee.
 The police of Vienna have visited sus- pected houses, and arrested sixteen coiners | and forgers who have been devoting their en- ergies to the furtherance of anarchlsm. A quantity of explosives, base coin and bank | notes and forgers' materials were also seized. Notwithstanding the official denials of the l destitute condition of the half-breeds in the vicinity of Battoche, the scene of the recent | rebellion, it is stated in Ottawa that many of them have for the past eighteen months been | on the verge of starvation. The River Thciss has broken the dykes at Csongrod, and inundated 15, 900 acres of land. The Temes and Bcga have overfown their
 banks, submerging 100 square miles of fields and twelve villages Several German rivers are rising, especially the Elbe and Yistula threatening serious damage. News has reached Merv from Herat that
 the Ghilzais have defeated 8 thousand of the l Ameer's regular troops and captured five guns and considerable baggage. Daharneil, the commander of the Ameers forces, was cap- tured and beheaded. The inhabitants of the province of Herat and of the adjoining dis tricts are greatly excited over the success of the revolting tribes.
 The Parliament of New Zealand has been
 dissolved in consequence of the defeat of the budget presented by Sir Julius Vogel, the Col onial Treasurer.
 During service in tho cathedral at Press burg, Hungary, an alarm of fire was raised A panic ensued and many of the congregation
 were injured in the crush which resulted from
 the frantic endeavors of the people to reach | the doors.
 Tho grain portcrs at Bristol, Eng, who | struck against the use of elevators in unload | ing vessels, have gone back to work, the enl- ployers having promised to use elevators only when they were insufhciently supplied with manual labor.
 A despatch from Rome says the central | crater of Mount Etna began an eruption, tho | flow continuing and increasing in volume. | Heavy clouds of smoke and masses Of stones | l~.... .l--. r. IL